Guild Wars 2

Serophous.9085:

This is an economy. Yes, anet can influence it by changing drop rates. Look a ectos.

And hate to break it to ya, this happens in RL too (Steam summer sales….)

I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make. Wintersbite is not a normal drop, it is a unique mystic forge skin… Adding something that was ONLY crafted to the Claw of Jormag loot tables is more than changing drop rates….

Garambola.2461:

Precursors cost even more on the TP. Are you ok with those coming from the chests?

Precursors aren’t special skins that are crafted in the mystic forge, they are 1/4 of a legendary weapon, so you can’t compare the two.

TheBlackLeech.9360:

…are you sure that someone wasn’t just trolling you by pinging his crafted weapon after Jormag?

Look on the TP, why would 24 people craft and list Wintersbite for 200g less than it costs to craft it. The only logical explanation is it drops from the Claw of Jormag event, which is something I’ve read here on the forums…

HotHit.6783:

I don’t understand how you can all claim the ranger is the best solo profession. They’re terrible at fighting alone.

We are the easiest class to level, and the easiest to solo open-world PvE content because we have pets to tank/distract. Unfortunately, pets fall short in high-level PvE content, which is why we are regarded as the worst profession.

I recently discovered that the ice bow Wintersbite drops for the Claw of Jormag meta event. While I don’t oppose unique skins from dropping from such events, I find it insulting that such an item (one that could only be crafted from the mystic forge) now simply drops from an event.

I’ve personally crafted a Wintersbite, and spent around 250g to do so, but now its only worth 90g due to the number of them dropping. The worst part is the shortbow version, Wintersbark, doesn’t drop so is still around 250g.

Please remove Wintersbite from the Claw of Jormag loot tables, since you’re alienating those of us who crafted them before they started dropping, and defeating the purpose of crafting one in the mystic forge.

Edit:

For any one who does not believe me, Wintersbite does in fact drop from the Claw of Jormag meta-event, here’s evidence…

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1bcibm/wintersbites_price/

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/events/LIST-of-Chest-Drops-Named-Weapons/first#post1871081

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

Do they still require fracs for the recipe?

Yes, you need a ‘Vail of Condensed Mist Essence’ for each of the ascended quiver recipe, which only drops from FOTM lv1-9.

Sunrise

While Twilight has an awesome space panorama, the colors and theme of sunrise better fits my character.

bri.2359:

HoTW p2 is not difficult.

The so-called ‘elite’ speed runners don’t like it because players actually need to fight mobs, particularly underwater.

If you have a decent underwater class, p2 is a faceroll.

You’re correct, HOTW p2 isn’t hard at all. I think the main reason people don’t do it though, is cause it takes longer. Even if you skip the first champion marauder, the second one still takes awhile to kill. Also the final boss can be a pain.

LinkR.6190:

It is a bug/flawed mechanic and it should be dealt with.

Actually it’s not bugged/flawed. Robert Hrouda has mentioned on multiple occasions that he purposefully allowed Jade Maw to target pets/minions/clones, in case people wanted to use them strategically as a temporary relief for players.

As previously stated, it really depends on what content you’ll be playing, since each has its own applications.

• Shortbow – SB is an extremely versatile weapon, while it has good CCs and suvivability for PvP situations, it also has good sustained damage that has PvE applications as well. So SB would be a solid choice for either sPvP, WvW, and PvE.

• Axe – Due to the bouncing auto-attack, axe is better in cooperative PvE like dungeons, since it may be hard to optimize in PvP situations. In addition, axe has very little survivability, making it worse for PvP where evades are a ranger’s strong-suit.

• Sword – Opposite of axe, ranger sword is more of a PvP weapon, since it has built in evades, CCs, and generally more survivability. Good for both sPvP and WvW (roaming, not zerg fights).

• Warhorn – Like shortbow, warhorn is great for many types of gameplay. The speed boost is invaluable in WvW zerging/roaming and the party-wide fury is great for dungeons.

Some other posts mention torch, which I have little experience with, but it seems like it would be good in any game-play. All in all, it really just depends on your play-style and what content you’ll be doing. My descriptions above are more generalized statements, so take them with a grain of salt. All ranger weapons have their uses, I carry greatsword, axe/warhorn, shortbow, and longbow all for doing dungeons, switching when necessary.

When full berserker geared and spec’d, Maul hits for around 4500 damage on crit (without considering bleeds), whereas each auto attack hits around 1500 on crit. Swoop on the other hands hits around 2100 on crit, but has a long attack animation.

P.S. We’re rangers, not hunters…

Aphix.9846:

Solfan.7531:

They turn to exotics, and lose their purple colour

No they do not. Transmuting works perfectly.

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I like how you repeated the exact thing I said……

I agree, a lot of previewed weapons end up being cut off and hard to see.

Vergil Huragok.3967:

Blood you’re certainly best off farming or doing ten clover recipe for that as the material transmuting cost 5 C dust

I have to disagree with you here. Unless you need clovers, doing the clover recipe is a huge waste of money. While yes, if you get 30-40 blood or dust you’ll be making a profit, almost any other item you receive (other than lodestones which are very rare) will be a loss.

You’d be better off selling your ecto/mystic coins and buying the mats. But since you need a stack of ecto for the gift of fortune too, I doubt you’d want to gamble them away or sell them.

Vol.5241:

The slot will become empty

What vol said.

To explain further… when you infuse your ring in the mystic forge, it becomes a completely new item, thus loosing any infusions on it, and it becomes account bound (soul-bound on use) again.

Musty.3148:

So, you want the lettering on the name to be purple instead of orange?

I’m sure that’s on the top of the list of “OMG WE GOTTA DO THIS NOW!”

I’m sorry, but can’t you see how ridiculous that sounds? Out of all the things that need fixing you come up with this?

Its ironic that you say this, because Anet already fixed the issue, since it’s obviously a big deal to those with legendary weapons.

Solfan.7531:

They turn to exotics, and lose their purple colour

No they do not, last month’s patch fixed this issue. I would know since I have a berserker Frostfang.

EDIT: Let me clarify… Legendary weapons and unique weapons now retain their original names, so a transmuted legendary will still have purple text and its original name. It will, however, say transmuted rather than legendary under the weapon type, and there is another bug that, when you unequip a legendary, it will state the name of the exotic rather than the legendary in the chat log.

With time I’m sure these kinks will get worked out, and when they release ascended weapons, they’d better upgrade all our legendary weapons, not just the lame PVT originals.

Bailey.6892:

Would like it if we could have a few variants of the skill. Take the suggestions above, redue the cool down a lot and then add the following. Lightning Reflex right, left, backward, forward, for ward right, forward left, backwards left, backwards right.

This would mean we are still stuck with going one direction but we could choose what direction we want to have on our hotbar. And if enemys became familiar with us we could slot a different direction. This would also make it so it was a lightning reflex and not a slow ground target type move etc.

Interesting idea, I think it might work better though if Lightning Reflexes acted like a dodge roll, and sent you in the direction your moving (or the direction you point your arrow keys).

BlackhawkSOM.6401:

You can always change the title anytime you want. Yes light reflexes should cure the condi immobilize it looks to awkward when you use it while immobilized.

Thanks! I was unaware that you could change topic titles……

It would also just make perfect sense, that an ability that shoots you back with a crack of lightning would break you free of webs or vines.

And the problem with condition removal, is that you can’t choose which condition you cure, so instead of removing the immobilize you might accidentally remove the bleeding instead.

Good luck selling your Frostfang, personally I wouldn’t make a legendary just to sell it (the Frostfang I made is happily sitting on my ranger) but to each their own.

A few guild mates have sold a few legendary weapons, but I know they waited till there was a substantial buy order, rather than listing it.

For a few months now we’ve asked Anet for permanent gathering tools. It’s nice to see they’ve heard us and responding by making an unbreakable mining pick. I’m sure with time, they’ll introduce unbreakable sickles and axes too, mining picks just made the most sense with the whole Flame and Frost event that’s going on.

Daecollo.9578:

Its just a color.

What is just a color? Because the metallic effect that The Juggernaut gives is not just a color, but a unique aura effect.

jan.9745:

Agree and need a to reduce CD.
Like mesmer there phase retreat is only 10 sec CD

Phase retreat is a weapon skill though, but a CD reduction would be nice nonetheless.

If traited, you can reduce the CD to 36 seconds, which is still longer than other escape abilities such as blink. Lightning Reflexes is also a generally worse escape utility, since you’re forced backwards rather than forwards (or any other direction).

Mystic.5934:

I’ve got a daily rare chest from Tequatl, then another from Ulgoth the Modniir. I was under the impression there was only 1 daily rare chest per account, but clearly I got 2 for different types of events. Does anyone know how these are grouped?
Like, can you kill Tequatl, Fire Elemental, Ulgoth, and Eye of Zhaitian and get a daily rare from all of them? which can you kill and still get another daily rare from which others?

It’s one bonus chest, per day, per account, per event. So you can get a guaranteed rare (or exotic) from each meta-event per day.

As the title stats, Lightning Reflexes should break immobilize. This would strengthen rangers in terms of PvP survivability (especially against thieves 1v1), and would also allow squishier, glass cannon rangers to last longer in structured PvE environments.

There are no quivers other than the four ascended ones, which are actually all under 100g (but still expensive).

Taran Redleaf.7912:

I would like to see dyes that add metallic colors to the game (shiny, metal). Colors like silver (nice reflective chrome-look), gold, copper, bronze. You can even make shiny base colors like Metallic Abyss (shiny solid black) or Metallic Celestial (shiny solid white) or even a whole series of Metallic Midnight colors (deep reds, blues, greens, and so forth) for those metallic heavy armor looks.

This would utterly defeat the purpose of “The Juggernaut”, since what you described is the effect it applies.

So while yes, dyes with crazy effects or finishes would be cool, they shouldn’t implement them at the expense of legendary weapons.

I’m sorry, but this game isn’t pokemon, or anything of the sort. While I understand your idea, I just don’t think such frivolous things should be implemented into the game.

I believe the reason it is soulbound is to deter people from endlessly farming orichalcum on all of their characters.

As it stands, banking, the black lion trading company, and the mystic forge all have permanent tools which allow you to access then from anywhere. It would be awesome if, as a reward for reaching lv400 in a crafting profession, to receive some sort of master toolkit for that profession, which would allow you to access a crafting station from anywhere.

I didn’t even know this existed!!!

YES, I would love to have that log-in screen. The current log-in process is very boring, impersonal, and not very powerful. Implementing that log-in screen would greatly improve the image and presence of GW2 as an MMO game.

Gandarel.5091:

They’ve learned from that lagfest and won’t have an open world final boss.

I’m pretty sure Gandarel is correct; from the looks of it, the “final event” will be a solo instanced quest similar to last month’s content. As such, I doubt they’ll be giving guaranteed exotics, its more likely that they’ll give everyone a free fused weapon ticket.

Himei.5379:

Lily Miranda.5407:

T6 scales have shot way up in price since April 1st for whatever reason. If you’re planning to buy them with gold, it might be a good idea to wait on those.

Go to gw2spidy and check out the stock amount. That is why it went up. With everyone telling someone to just go farm CoF and buy the materials, its forcing the prices to go up since the supply isnt being returned which forces the player to farm CoF more to be able to afford more of the mats. Also take into account SAB is taking people’s time out from farming Orr.

Problem is, it’s more efficient to farm gold for these materials, rather than farm the materials themselves.

My guild leader has The Minstrel, and I agree that it is really disappointing. Along with a few other legendary weapons (meteorlogicus, kraitkin, eternity, etc…), the focus really needs a revamp.

jpnova.4572:

We can get quickness without using an elite. One every 48s-60s and another 15s-20s depending on traiting.

Without any traiting we can get chill from- Axe mainhand, pets, traps and give AoE frost aura.

We can dish out perma(even AoE) cripple with pets, elite, trap, weapon skills.

We can do almost every elementalist field, and make them last as long/longer. 5s/8s Fire Field, 5s Frost Field, 15s Water Field.

Also one condition removed per 3 seconds, plus insta for yourself on cast. Healing Spring is a beast, and if someone has put an AoE on it, just roll or run through it. =D

Sure, we have the best cripples and chills, but those are only important in certain PvE situations, unlike many of the very powerful utilities (feedback, wall of reflection, etc…) that are extremely powerful in a variety of situations.

What I’m trying to get at, is that rangers are worse for any dungeon role, whether it be tank, support, glass cannon, or a mixture of two. If not purely worse, then it is at least a lot, lot harder for rangers to successfully fill one of those roles.

awge.3852:

Actually I recently found out they can be amazingly supportive, however that is if you trait for full BM and for full healing gear/traits/utilities. I recently did some pvp and fought a ranger + elementalist duo, where the ranger sent their pet in for damage (luckly they sucked at micromanaging it) however their supportive skills for the elementalist + the elementalist healing support made them immortal, 3 vs 2 couldn’t get it done because they kept on healing each other so much. I think I saw this build somewhere… apothecary gear + runes of dwanya? Anyways just putting it out there.

The situation you’ve described is purely sPvP, and I’m strictly referring to organized PvE circumstances.

Who knows, maybe I’ve just been playing the class entirely wrong for quite awhile, this is just what I’ve discovered and experienced.

jpnova.4572:

I’m sorry, but I have to disagree with you, pets aren’t bugged, the system is just clunky and not easy to manage until you get a hang of it. It does need to be improved. Rangers aren’t for Zerging, if you want to be a part of it, stand right at the back and rain arrows or Rapid Fire from as far as you can.

Dungeons and Fractals-
-Ranger can survive most things besides Agony, lets me keep the rest of my party from wiping. Jump over to my downed Team Mate, pop Healing Spring and revive them with QZ and quickness bursts from my pet switch.
-Traps bring brilliant control to the group, Cripple and Chill are invaluable controls and so is Muddy Terrain. We can perma chill/cripple mobs and bosses combining pets.
-We have Search and Rescue and Guard which are highly under rated skills in group game play.
-We can provide a Water Field, Fire Fields and an Ice Field.
-Healing Spring is probably the best heal skill available for party play, Regen, field and condition removal. It can also be traited to provide Vigor on each pulse.

The reason a ranger is not wanted- they are hard to master unlike the other classes primarily because of us being very trait and pet reliant. Which means not many can bring much to the table and have made a bad reputation for the class. Hence, threads like these are made. Which gives ideas to help players get a hang of the class, learn what’s what. Serbant has made a brilliant thread to compare rangers to other classes.

Rangers are the hardest class to master but have potential to be the master class.

Yes, we can quickness res, but mesmers can quickness res better. Yes, we can chill mobs, but elementalists can chill better. Yes we can create water, fire, and ice fields, but again, elementalists can do all these things better. Yes we can apply aoe regeneration and condition removal, but yet again elementalists can do these better.

The only thing that rangers do better than other classes is evade and survive, even if played well, rangers do not offer many of the extremely powerful team-based utilities such as reflection, deflection, aoe blinds, etc…

Basically, we don’t tank better than any other class, we don’t support the group better than any class, we don’t glass cannon than any other class.

Kal Spiro.9745:

Ah, I see, unlimited stack. Why should they redesign how stacks work and add a whole new category to an area that is not simple to check on the go, when they could more effectively just add a row to the currency section of the inventory, which is already “infinite capacity,” for dungeon tokens and fractal tokens and WvW tokens and all the currencies we already have that aren’t represented in our currency section.

Woo, and that was all one breath too.

This doesn’t work since they added Jeweler recipes that use dungeon tokens to craft rings and accessories, but I agree that they shouldn’t/wouldn’t change their stack size.

Instead, they could make multiple rows for each dungeon token, as in 10 slots for 10 stacks of 250 per dungeon, or something along those lines.

Just happened to me too, quite annoyed especially since there was another server crash a few days ago…….

Hope this server maintenance tonight fixes it….

Instead they should just makes dyes an account-wide thing…. but I doubt they’d do this….

I’m having the same problem, the dumb thing is that dungeon tokens already have a greyed out “Deposit Collectible” option, they just have yet to implement a collectible tab for them.

I agree that rangers are adaptable and survivable, with over a thousand hours on the class, I’ve learned to switch weapons and utilities often (I always carry gs, lb, sb, and axe/horn).

The only problem is, we have little to offer in terms of supportive utilities, since spirits (practically our only party support) are useless at the moment, which is why many people prefer guardians for support, or elementalists for healing.

As long as these aren’t empty promises, this made my day!

I would start with your gift of mastery (world completion, 525k karma, 500 badges of honor, and 200 skill points), then move onto your clovers and work for your two crafted gifts, as well as gift of magic.
Personally, I like to save precursor till last, but depending on the legendary, you might even want to get it first.

yoshoken.9432:

Googling gave me an answer to this question. So apparently, what you saw was a Warrior with the Aether skin using a Warrior skill that shoots sets of flaming arrows.

I had a feeling it was something like this, and this confirms my statement that no non-legendary skin gives special projectiles or effects.

Durzlla.6295:

jwaz.1908:

Neither Wintersbark nor Wintersbite have special animations or projectiles. No non-legendary weapon has special animations of any kind, and just serve as skins.

Have you used either of these bows or are you just making kitten up?

The reason I ask this I because I know for a fact the bolder text is wrong. There is a ghosty looking now that shoots fiery arrows (idk the name of the bow the guy in LA wouldn’t link it just told me it came from the forge), I’m assume its the foe fire bow though.

I do have wintersbite, screenshot below, and I’m not sure which bow your talking about, because as far as I know, only legendary weapons have special projectiles.

RyuDragnier.9476:

Too bad their abilities really suck right now jwaz. I don’t see the point in even using them due to how crappy the abilities are.

I realize they ‘re horrible abilities lol, that’s why I said they need to buff them.

I would like to see a screenshot of this, it seems unlikely to kill 1000 giants in 6 months when there are only 2 to kill, unless that’s the only thing you did for those 6 months.

I’ve transmuted my Frostfang, and to be honest, if Anet doesn’t upgrade it to ascended when ascended weapons come out, I’m going to be angry.

Even if it’s a new item after being transmuted, I expect a magical script to upgrade all transmuted legendary weapons, or at least receive a free ascended weapon in the mail to transmute our legendary onto.

There are a lot of achievements that lack titles, such as the legendary collector achievement (for equipping 5 unique legendary weapons), which is the most expensive achievement.

Though, there is currently no way to get the Giant Slayer achievement without it taking years, so they’d need to fix that achievement first before adding any titles.

RyuDragnier.9476:

I’d prefer if upon death the spirit AoE explodes and gives some sort of field for friendly players to use, along with damage/buff/condition to nearby enemies/allies (depending on the spirit)

Sun Spirit - Explosion hits enemies nearby for fire damage and inflicts burn. Burn Field.
Frost Spirit - Explosion hits enemies nearby for frost damage and inflicts chill. Chill Field.
Stone Spirit - Explosion hits enemies nearby for earth damage and inflicts cripple and bleed. Dunno what kind of field we could do for this one if any.
Storm Spirit - Explosion hits enemies nearby for lightning damage and inflicts vulnerability and daze. Lightning Field
Spirit of Nature - Explosion heals allies nearby (dependent on Ranger’s Healing Power) and gives Vigor and Regen to allies. Water Field

There is a trait that already (kinda) does this, making a spirit activate its ability on death.

Honestly I was completely shocked when I found out spirits had health (or can be killed), they’re spirits, non-terrestrial beings that should be immune to damage. Seeing that spirits are a ranger’s only support option, they really need a major overhaul, either buffing their abilities to actually being significant, or making them immune to damage (or just AOE).